Food price relief to ease supply for winter
The food administrator announces price lifts effective September 1 for staples at 0.12 per quart with a guarantee of adequate supply through the coming winter, in place at least until April 1.
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Warren Evening Times
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
2
The food administrator announces price lifts effective September 1 for staples at 0.12 per quart with a guarantee of adequate supply through the coming winter, in place at least until April 1.
Food Administrator Todd announces a milk price rise to 12 3 4 cents a quart effective September 1 through April 1 to ensure winter supply in Warren County. The notice addresses supply concerns and cites the need to stabilize availability for the coming months.
The U S Food Administration and Pennsylvania State Bureau of Markets report labor shortages slow market movement but fruit and vegetables remain abundant. Tomatoes, lima beans, cabbage, califlowers, cucumbers, peppers, corn and squash are available. apples and peaches stay in demand to prevent waste. Elberta canning peaches and plums are forecast in southern Pennsylvania, and New Jersey cantaloupes ripen with unusually high quality.
The Warren County annual Fair opens at the Fair Grounds on upper Conewange avenue. The four day event features a big military day with C I Erie machine gun detachment and others. Cattle horses sheep hogs and local exhibitors from Walter Ward to Claude Robinson are shown with prize herds. Admission remains fifty cents plus five cents war tax. children's price is twenty five cents.
A period advertisement urges men and women to use Phosphated Iron to improve blood and nerves, claiming it revitalizes energy, aids recovery from overwork, and supports general vitality. The copy promotes capsules over pills and targets wide readership.
The selective board reports fifty Warren County men are summoned for training and duty. Seventeen will depart September 6 by morning train to Camp Greenleaf Georgia for a period of training. Patrick J. Daley, recently stationed at Washington Barracks, has arrived safely overseas with Co. D, 467 Engineers.
The Local Draft Board has received notice to induct registrants into the navy for training as marine engineer officers. Registrants with technical training may apply to the naval reserve training school. The navy seeks about 9,000 officers and has temporarily lifted the draft bar to allow eligible men to join.
United Spanish War Veterans in Warren report passage of a bill granting pensions to widows and children of volunteers who served 90 days in the Army Navy or Maine Corps during the Spanish American War or Philippine Insurrection from 1898 to 1902. A national encampment will be in Baltimore September 3 4 5 with a one cent a mile rate by certificates, saving two cents a mile and boosting attendance.
A small group of six limited service men left for Camp Greene North Carolina with modest farewells. They were escorted to Pennsylvania Station by local board officials and boarded the 9 05 train. A Warren resident urged equal farewell treatment for all draftees, whether general or limited service.
Warren Times notes a sale at Richardsons featuring ladies white voile waists in new styles and sizes 36 to 46 priced at 1.25 and 1.50 dollars. The item is dated 8-30-14 and attributed to Subecrine.
The local board called 47 men to report for Camp Green Leaf Georgia on the Pennsylvania train leaving at 9 57 in the morning September 5. An additional 16 men are to depart Sept 3 for Camp Dix at Wrightstown none drawn yet. The list includes John Henry Arlander Charles M Logan Alfred Hazeltine John W Camner George H Austin Dorry Paul J Klench Leo Lucie Ernest H Carlson Carl F Peterson Roy C Dailey Richard F Hildum Harry M Rogers Wallace A Schuler Chas Ristan Emery W Peterson Laveen A Knightlinger James Tridico Gust Gustafsen John E Masterson Edwin S Anderson Kas Brown Clifford H Wingard William Abplanip Edward R Gusher Floyd Nuhfer Wajsne Schultz William S Sanden Roy H Henry Harold G Edin J Lindmark Walter P Mathyer Leo L Weidert Walter J Spoon Otto R Anderson Albert Roth John Ewan Earl H Brooks William B Colvin Earl E Warren Gilbert E Tucker Siegfred L Gustafson George W Neaves Joseph F Guiffre Louis Morell Merle Dahle Albert J Yagge Arthur T Johnson Charles Lucie Carl EB Johnson Richard Jones. They report at 3 PM September 4 at the Armory.
The funeral for Charles A Beerstedt who died last Wednesday in Sterling Indiana was held this afternoon in Illinois City with interment at the same place. Also noted is a sale at Vadies offering voile waists in all sizes for 1.25 and 1.50. A North Woods guide recounts how a hunter survived by camouflaging as a deer.
Milwaukee reader Mrs. H Dooley shares relief from debilitating pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises renewed energy for work and urges other factory and mill workers to try the tonic, citing four decades of company experience and remote advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
Labor Day events planned with Jamestown joining Warren in union celebrations. Jamestown to host parade and activities under the motto Win the War for Freedom. Banks and the Post Office observe holiday hours with limited services while two City League baseball games and a Warren Rifle Club re entry match attract crowds amid extra trolley service to Jamestown.
Mrs. Joseph Vandegrif of West Grove, Pa, describes chronic weakness, fainting, dizziness, and headaches eased by Dr Williams Pink Pills. The ad promotes the tonic as building blood and aiding nervous disorders, with free books and mail order purchase options.
Come in before Tuesday to make arrangements if you can. Office open every day for enrollments from 9 to 5.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.